Well, this is the recent trend with horror movies: Get an unknown cast of young actors (or at least young actors from popular teen TV series) throw in an unknown director with only music videos on his resume, add some "ADHD" style editing, and bam -- you have a cheap $10 million movie with hopes of making $100 million back from stupid teens suckered in to see it.

It's been like that for what...30 years now?

"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie ... but, no, no. John Hughes did not direct my life." ("Easy A", 2010)

Halloween has probably been the time of year to release cheap-jack horror films since Universal's string of "Wolf Man" and "Mummy" sequels in the early-to-mid 1940s.

What makes this particular film an egregious example of suckering in audiences is that its advertising truly does look wimpy enough (i.e. scare-free enough) to have been made for either cable TV or direct-to-video release. And why they think opening it on Halloween night makes sense -- when the very morning after it opens the whole Halloween as a sales angle suddenly becomes moot -- is beyond me...

Obviously, Rotten Tomatoes isn't giving an inch. I might ask some of the critics if they posted their complaints AFTER they saw it. Based on where it landed on the box office charts and the C grade its getting on Box Office Mojo, I might rank this as either Probable or Questionable (ironically, One Missed Call, The Eye, Shutter, The Happening, and Quarantine all fell in the latter category).

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